Pink Floyd at Live 8

[Iorfa]

Wish you were here was amazing. Reckon they'll be touring together soon enough following the reaction to their set. All their albums in HMV on Oxford St. have sold out today!

[Dublin12]

I reckon they'll be playing Slane next year

[Lionel Ritchie]

I think it'd take Floyd to get me to go to Slane

[Dublin12]

I think they were made for each other,could you just imagine it

[Lionel Ritchie]

Indeed I could. I could probably even bring myself to put up with the expensive warm beer, hordes of sunburned gob****es and event junkies with glo-sticks that would surely turn out for it and all. Would be great though.

[Roadend]

I thought the Who were the best band all day, no other guitarist came close to Townshend, he was head and shoulders above anyone else. Funny to see Pink Floyd back together considering how they hated each other's guts.
It was good to see Ashcroft out there too, one of the few that day who can actually sing.
Williams will always get a good reaction because he's a master at working the crowd. He has to be as it disguises his awful karaokee music.

[Peadar]

I thought the Who were the best band all day, no other guitarist came close to Townshend

Who'd want to get close to that dirty pervert?
I was worried for the poor little African kids on stage.

[Roadend]

I tee 'em up you drive 'em home ya?

[paul_oshea]

as well as playing to 200,000 at a time...

....yes like all bands, but they never have done, bar yesterday, and in fairness never will do

[Lionel Ritchie]

I have a live CD of Maiden playing to quarter of a million in Brazil where dickinson gets the crowd (yep 250,000 people) to sing the intro to 'fear of the dark'.

It makes Freddie Mercurys 'day-oh' gag at wembley look pretty easy by comparison.

[Peadar]

that dinosaur slag is itself a dinosaur -the NME was using that in the 1970s.

So you expect me to get excited about a band who were referred to as Dinosaurs before I was even born?

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.

[paul_oshea]

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.

they hadnt played together in 20 years!!

[Lionel Ritchie]

So you expect me to get excited about a band who were referred to as Dinosaurs before I was even born?

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.

I sometimes get excited about gregorian chant stuff from eons before I was born, by trad stuff we haven't a blind clue of the age of and by mozart from over 200 years ago. your point?

Yeah they've it a good bit harder than Robbie Williams who could'nt play a triangle and doesn't need to remember words as the backing track is never wrong.

You do know Robbie is about 32 dont ya? getting old like

[noby]

So you expect me to get excited about a band who were referred to as Dinosaurs before I was even born?

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.

As straw-clutching goes, that takes the biscuit.

You like Williams; you dis-like floyd. Can we not just leave it at that?

[Peadar]

mozart from over 200 years ago.

At least when Mozart died, he stayed dead!
These boys should just rest on their laurels.
The sun has set on their musical careers.

[hamish]

So you expect me to get excited about a band who were referred to as Dinosaurs before I was even born?

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.

Whether you get excited or not is up to you Peadar - so what if they have to try and remember the lyrics and they do have a big backlog of music so not surprising really and they hadn't much practise time, apparently. Anyway, it was you who introduced the dinosaur tag.

I just found their musicianship, those beautiful guitar sounds from Dave Gilmore and those great songs thoroughly enjoyable. It's a cliche but it's the music that counts in the end, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

I didn't know you were THAT young, by the way, enjoy it - it passes awfully quickly and you may even end up a "boring old fart" like me - another old NME term. LOL

Fine, if you don't like them but I always laugh when people slag off a band 'cos their over thirty, forty and god forbid, fifty.

It's the music - it's the music - it's the music.

Good music is good music and the age tag is irrelevant.

[Lionel Ritchie]

At least when Mozart died, he stayed dead!
These boys should just rest on their laurels.
The sun has set on their musical careers.

Why? coz they're in their late 50's early 60's? give me a break.

I know the world has become more and more youth obsessed but please.

Will you want Robbie to rest on his laurels when he's 60 -or will you popping along to Butlins to watch him haul his fat ass about.

[Peadar]

Fine, if you don't like them but...

It's not that I don't like them but I felt there was such hype about them and people saying how amazing their set was when, quite frankly, for me, they combined with The Who and 'Macca' to drain the atmosphere. Like flesh eating zombies who sucked the life out of the crowd.

My points are based on their performance last Saturday and in the context of the Live8 concert.

Will you want Robbie to rest on his laurels when he's 60

If he's still alive.

or will you popping along to Butlins to watch him haul his fat ass about.

If I can get tickets.

[noby]

Why? coz they're in their late 50's early 60's? give me a break.

I know the world has become more and more youth obsessed but please.

Will you want Robbie to rest on his laurels when he's 60 -or will you popping along to Butlins to watch him haul his fat ass about.

60??? Try 45. By 60 he'll be the Dickie Rock of the Cruiser circuit.

[town73]

any word on a live8 DVD?